For a variety of reasons, I was made to actually feel my age this week. People would be discussing Biden and then pointedly look in my direction and nod knowingly at one another. Another of my former collaborators died. My hip started troubling me. Naps started sounding like a good idea. I requested that all my classes be scheduled from 10:00am to 4:00 pm. My erections lasted under 4 hours, so I didn’t need to call my doctor. I canceled two dates because, meh, what’s the point?
Everyone else is getting older, too, and in that spirit, birthdays today include a guy who apparently inspired Biden; a guy who apparently decorated every condo in Del Boca Vista; another widely heralded artist who makes me wonder why, exactly (other than the mustache)? ; a woman who bravely went out there and failed every goddam time; a guy who delighted me when I was a kid (and before his son ruined it); a guy who lived a pedophile’s wet dream; a fine competitor to LBJ as “Most Evil Person To Occupy The White House” in my lifetime; the guy who was the best part of Get Smart; a guy who always preferred a pair of big ones; the subject of Michael O’Donoghue’s best impression; a guy with a meteoritic career; someone not to shower with; someone not to go camping with; another strong competitor to LBJ as Worst President of My Lifetime; a guy who has greatly aided the milk crate industry; and someone we could have had instead of Tracy Ullman.
Am I forgetting something… uhhhhh….
Oh yeah, Links.
“Reformist” meaning “selected by the regime specifically not to change anything.”
Irreversible drug treatments are not enough, we wanna CHOP!
He got the slang wrong. “Flicking the bean” is female. Or was he a tranny?
Well, this makes me feel better about the images I routinely steal.
Alabama and Oklahoma are horrible places, but even so, there’s some bright spots.
Fuck, the Old Man loves this song. And the Old Man loves Sarah Jarosz. Can’t go wrong (and I just noticed something about the chorus, which reinforces my belief that McMurtry is America’s finest living songwriter)…
It’s Biden’s birthday?
I don’t particularly wish him a happy one. 😒
His daughter seemed pretty pleased by the experience. AND BY “PLEASED” MEAN….
OMWC should watch Les Diaboliques. (The original version, not the Sharon Stone movie.)
The Clouzot film?
Yes.
Ouais!
Agent 99 was the best part of Get Smart.
So, you missed it by this much.
Jarosz…I have noticed a number of musicians I thought were obscure and have been listening to for a few years suddenly getting a lot of mainstream attention. Excellent. I hope they all become millionaires.
Morning all. Lazy bums.
Oklahoma City has a very nice cowboy museum, which includes an indoor “town street”, with a mock-up of the various buildings (blacksmith, hotel, etc.). A lot of nice paintings of the old west, a section on rodeos, and the like.
Also, I like Taco Mayo.
The children’s museum isn’t too shabby, either. They have a stage show, where audience members are invited to participate
I haven’t been to the zoo there, though.
There’s a massive action figure museum somewhere south of Norman, OK that is interesting too. If CPRM ever makes it down here I’d take him there.
Meh..all my training is in OKC..not a fan except maybe onion burgers
I visited the very last Hastings in the world, there, before it closed forever.
Don’t miss the osteology museum, or the banjo museum.
Is there a bone banjo in between?
So any of their software I find is fair game then?
Totally.
Go for it.
Of course, it would be similar to stealing your neighbor’s Craftsman lawnmower that’s been sitting, unused, in his work shed since the late 80’s
That article is titled “why” GenZ are turned off, but it doesn’t exactly explain why.
I suspect it’s because, compared to the freely available porn, movie sex scenes are jarringly quaint.
“Where’s the midget with the paddle?”
They mentioned House of the Dragon.
And written in just to be sex scenes. Not really relevant to the story.
I mean, they could be exposition!
Subliminal images inserted to create an aversion to sex?
That and the push of transexualism to create a population that can’t or won’t reproduce, thus reducing the population to a more easily controlled number?/tips tinfoil hat to a jaunty angle
“Forty-three percent of those polled believe that sex scenes are either always or mostly unnecessary and don’t add enjoyment or story enhancement”
I can’t really argue with this.
So, the remaining 57% believe that a story is always or mostly unnecessary and does not add enjoyment?
Gen Z huh? I have noticed they have a lot of hangups. Our parent had nothing on them. When I was young I never would have dreamt our kids would all have a stick up their ass.
It’s entirely too steamy outside. Bleh.
88% humidity here.
😓
To be fair, I think they’re close – it feels like a “lie” to me.
I could do without the “sex” scenes in The Boys . What the fuck is wrong with those people (the writers, not the characters)? I can’t believe anybody would allow their name to be associated with that excrescence.
And yet, I’ll most likely hate watch it to the end.
It got too gross for me some time back ago.
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That and the push of transexualism to create a population that can’t or won’t reproduce, thus reducing the population to a more easily controlled number?/tips tinfoil hat to a jaunty angle
Just laying the groundwork for lab grown stormtroopers.
Speaking of tin plated hypocrites-
That “Disney heiress” who wants all rich people to pay their “fair share” and indiscriminately fund the government no matter where the money goes has declared her intent to withhold further donations to the Democrats until they push Joe out of a high window. For some reason she suddenly decided she should be able to control where her money goes.
Probably supports “public” (read: government) campaign funding, too.
Palace intrigue
Another person close to the president said the Biden family is not seeing the political reality clearly.
“It’s Shakespearean,” this person said.
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Biden family members have discussed whether he should fire senior White House adviser Anita Dunn and her husband, Bob Bauer, who is Biden’s personal lawyer, two people familiar with the matter said. Even so, four sources close to the Biden family said there is no active effort to shake up staffing right now. They said there is an effort among those close to the president to be measured, focused, thoughtful and deliberate.
“The president and first lady have full confidence in their team, including Anita and Bob,” White House chief of staff Jeff Zients said in a statement. “There is absolutely no truth to these unfounded and insulting rumors.”
Since the debate, Biden family members have felt that some of the president’s top aides in the White House and on the campaign have thrown the president under the bus rather than taking responsibility for what led to a catastrophic debate performance, according to one of the sources.
Backs were stabbed.
Hunter is there to look for traitors, not to give advice.
For the family, this is all about “old wounds being reopened,” particularly with Bauer and Dunn and their recommendations about Hunter Biden maintaining a lower profile than he has in the last two years, said a source familiar with family and staff dynamics.
Michael LaRosa, former White House communications chief to the first lady, defended Hunter Biden’s involvement in political affairs, saying that as a Yale-educated attorney, the president’s son has demonstrated savvy.
“He was far more effective at media strategy and political knife-fighting than the campaign has been so far and they have $250 million,” LaRosa said in an interview.
Savvy, he is. It takes a convicted felon to fight a convicted felon.
Mornin’, reprobates!
For a variety of reasons, I was made to actually feel my age this week.
When I decided to retire in March, my colleagues were surprised and asked why. I told them that I was slowing down mentally and coulld no longer keep up with the pace of change in my field (Big data engineering) and needed to call it quits for my sake and theirs. Pretty sure I made the right call even though I probably could have continued to earn a fat paycheck for a few more years. Gotta know when to hang ’em up, too bad some people don’t get it.
To be fair, if Biden hung things up when he should have, he never would have been president.
‘patzie!!! 😃 Great to see you, as always. Been missing you in the early morning. I know you’d have no trouble keeping up with us regulars then. 😄
Hey, GT! Truth be told, I sensed an opportunity and have been working on setting up my presidential campaign. Step 1 completed, I legally changed my name to “None of the above” My internal polling indicates that I already have a large lead in several swing states.
Step 1 completed, I legally changed my name to “None of the above” My internal polling indicates that I already have a large lead in several swing states.
You’ll do better than Nobody.
COOL LINK BRO
Silicone Saturday salutes the queens of female copulatory vocalizations, the long-tail macaques.
https://archive.is/3BlY1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_copulatory_vocalizations
Excellent! No unnecessary story to ruin things.
“A group of transgender and nonbinary state legislators sent a letter to the Biden administration criticizing its decision to oppose gender-affirming surgery for minors.”
Nonbinary is bullshit. I wonder how many, if any, are actually trans?
Seems like Biden has set the goal for mental acuity and there are a lot of participants wanting to match his level and beyond.
Won’t someone think of the poor law professors?
The Supreme Court isn’t making it easy to be a law professor these days.
After overturning the 40-year-old Chevron deference last week, the justices threw law curricula for another major loop on Monday with their earth-shaking ruling on presidential immunity — all this just two years after Roe v. Wade was struck down after 50 years on the books.
Law school professors have been meeting to discuss the forthcoming changes to their courses, trying to get their heads around the new legal landscape the conservative-leaning court is creating.
They’re going to have to re-write their course material. All because of the Bad Orange Jumpsuit Man.
Huh… you’d think this may point out some other areas that they’re lacking insight into.
“A South Carolina dad was seen dancing in his front yard while dressed as Uncle Sam, moments before he died after igniting a large firework on top of his head.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13605747/South-Carolina-dad-Uncle-Sam-died-fireworks-July-4.html
SC corking on competing with Florida?
‘thinking’, dammit
I can respect that method of exiting this world.
Yep, he went out with a bang.
Arthur Brown has a sad.
“We’re in a period of rapid constitutional change, and that means that we don’t know where they’re headed,” said Sam Erman, professor at the University of Michigan Law School.
I’m pretty sure the Constitution says what it has always said.
““I started using my boyfriend’s sperm daily in the morning, storing it in ice cube trays to facilitate use,” Brazilian skinfluencer Malelly, 27, told NeedToKnowOnline of her avant-garde abolitions.
Dousing her derma in bodily fluids gave the glamor gal a glossy glow. But Malelly’s incessant need to prime the pump ultimately rubbed her guy the wrong way.”
https://nypost.com/2024/07/05/lifestyle/i-used-my-mans-sperm-for-facials-it-gave-me-a-goopy-glow-but-then-ruined-our-relationship/
skinfluencer?
half-way through the first sentence I was thinking ‘Daily Star’.
Nope.
Another synonym for “wastrel”.
Gross…we really do need to bring back some aspects of our now nonexistent shame culture.
I would find it hot and beneficial to relationships if gals in my life felt my lubrication provided additional benefits.
I sense many rituals in our future. Hopefully she’d inseminate the idea into me, and with grace I’d contribute to her dermatological desires.
“A lengthy manifesto written by Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale won’t be released to the public because its copyright now belongs to her victims’ loved ones, a judge has ruled.
Families of the three children and three staffers gunned down last year by Hale, 28, at the private Christian Covenant School can block media outlets’ access to the writings, Chancery Court Judge I’Ashea Myles ruled Thursday night.
“The original writings, journals, art, photos and videos created by Hale are subject to an exception to the [Tennessee Public Records Act ] created by the federal Copyright Act,” Myles wrote in court documents.
The ruling comes after Hale’s parents transferred ownership of her writings — which include 20 journals, a “memoir” and suicide note — to the families of the people she murdered in a bid to keep them out of the public eye.”
https://nypost.com/2024/07/05/us-news/nashville-school-shooters-manifesto-cant-be-released-judge/
What are they hiding?
That’s not how copyright works.
Something significant, maybe they can get another Warren Commission to declare a national security issue.
I suspect the shooter might have had help, and made references to it.
Very strange
My Conspiracy Theory sensors are going off, but I don’t have a billion dollars, so I will keep certain thoughts to myself.
https://imgflip.com/i/6oirz1
That’s not my dog
Former President Donald Trump on Friday sought to distance himself from a closely aligned conservative group’s plans to radically reshape the federal government and American life should the former president win a second term.
In a post to his social media site, Trump claimed, “I know nothing about Project 2025,” the name given to a playbook crafted by the Heritage Foundation to fill the executive branch with thousands of Trump loyalists and reorient its many agencies’ missions around conservative ideals.
“I have no idea who is behind it,” Trump continued on Truth Social. “I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”
And some of the things people are saying about it are ridiculous.
Everything the left is saying about it is ridiculous. Progjection always, cuz it is what we want to do.
“And some of the things people are saying about it are ridiculous.”
It doesnt matter what Trump says or what the Project 2025 states as their manifesto. We are dealing with a bunch of foam-at-the-mouth TDS lunatics. Nothing is too ridiculous for them to believe. If you told them that the plan involves skinning trannies alive on TV that claim would go viral tomorrow.
https://nypost.com/2024/07/06/us-news/oakland-looters-ransack-gas-station-as-store-owner-sam-mardaie-claims-cops-took-hours-to-respond/
All retail establishments should just leave these towns.
I’m thinking of opening up a hoodie shop, seems to be a big demand. Personalized for free.
We need a Shooter Looter bill.
A senior Trump campaign adviser told CNN that Trump’s post disavowing the group stemmed from a series of factors, most notably the Biden campaign’s recent messaging campaign tying Trump to the project.
Project 2025 has long frustrated Trump and his top advisers, who have been annoyed with the amount of coverage its policy platforms have received and the perception that the group is working in tandem with the campaign — despite Project 2025 partnering with a series of top Trump allies.
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The Biden campaign on Friday quickly dismissed Trump’s attempts to keep Project 2025 at arm’s length.
“Project 2025 is the extreme policy and personnel playbook for Trump’s second term that should scare the hell out of the American people,” Biden campaign spokesman Ammar Moussa said in a statement. “Project 2025 staff and leadership routinely tout their connections to Trump’s team, and are the same people leading the RNC policy platform and Trump’s debate prep, campaign, and inner circle.”
Muh Nazi theocracy!
During the debate Trump clearly stated he was happy the SC pushed abortion to the states and that’s where the issue should be. Then Biden claimed Trump would sign a national ban. Then the moderators cut off Trump. This will be no different.
Everything the left is saying about it is ridiculous. Progjection always, cuz it is what we want to do.
I do not doubt for an instant the presence of moronic ultra “conservative” nonsense in that 900 page manifesto. It has no more chance of being brought to fruition than the Maoist revolutionary nonsense at the fringes of the Democratic campaign.
That is what I would have said some years back about the things the left has successfully managed to put front and center into the mainstream now.
Actually less of a chance.
The automated ammunition dispenser uses artificial intelligence technology to verify a buyer’s identification and age through card scanning and facial recognition software
That sounds is the FBI rubbing its hands in glee.
Check out the new free 3D printer files for Glock replacement seers at this site…
FBI.honeytrap.gov.
Who wants a full-auto Glock?
An update to a Kamala Harris meme
I was sure it was the yesterdaytomorrowtoday thing. I noticed all of the lefty propaganda ‘fact check’ sites are claiming that one is a cheap fake.
This week’s powerline fun
apparently they cannot verify that I am human.
https://x.com/tribelaw/status/1806696839493632376
Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️
@tribelaw
The ones I feel sorry for are my administrative law colleagues who built their courses and careers around the intricacies of Chevron deference.
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Loved the response “learn to code”.
Repent, the end is nigh
The 40-year-old legal framework, the Chevron doctrine, once directed courts to defer to the expertise of federal agencies, such as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
In a far-reaching decision, the court’s conservative supermajority held last week in Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo and Relentless Inc v Department of Commerce that the reverse should apply, with courts having the final say over even highly technical regulations.
“This was a gut punch for health, safety and the environment in the US,” said Prof Lawrence O Gostin, an expert in health law and a professor at Georgetown Law’s O’Neill Institute. “There’ll be no area where agencies act to protect the public’s health or safety or the environment that won’t be adversely affected by this ruling.”
Death and destruction will follow. Anarchy. Chaos. Capitalism.
I read “This was a gut punch for limitless power and unaccountability in the US,” said Prof Lawrence O Gostin
They’ll have a lot more trouble with weaponizing federal agencies against their disfavored targets so bummer for them. I see people bemoaning the sidelining of so called experts in favor of decision making by judges but they can, frankly, get fucked. If you want an unaccountable federal tyranny of the experts move your ass to France.
Solidarity
President Joe Biden canceled a planned speech in Philadelphia at the annual conference of the National Education Association after the union’s staff announced a strike and set up picket lines Friday.
Biden had planned to speak Sunday, but his campaign said the president is a “fierce supporter of unions and he won’t cross a picket line.” The picket line effectively ended the weeklong convention, canceling the last three days of programming, the NEA said.
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The NEA’s union, the National Education Association Staff Organization, set up picket lines Friday around the Pennsylvania Convention Center in downtown Philadelphia and had a three-day strike planned at the event.
The union said it has filed two unfair labor practice complaints over what it says are the NEA’s failure to comply with basic union requirements.
It is accusing the NEA of unilaterally removing holiday overtime pay and failing to provide information on outsourcing $50 million in contracts, it said.
End exploitation and wage slavery now.
I was 100% sure their grievances were going revolve around DEI and/or tranny stuff.
Enh, it’s performative bullshit anyway. Biden surely arranged it in advance.
Anyone watch Joe’s interview with George S? How’d it go?
I saw a few minutes of it. It went as you would expect. I wish the media would quit going on about how bad Joe is. He is the dream opposition candidate.
Red phone rings at night
“President Bi-Bi-Biden here”
Russian accent, “What are you wearing? If you really are the president”
“uh, uh, uh, Jill, Jill, what am I wearing?
This site keeps jumping while I’m in the middle of reading it.
It’s my money and I’ll spend it as I see fit
“I intend to stop any contributions to the party unless and until they replace Biden at the top of the ticket. This is realism, not disrespect. Biden is a good man and has served his country admirably, but the stakes are far too high,” Abigail Disney, granddaughter of The Walt Disney Co. co-founder Roy O. Disney, told CNBC on Thursday.
“I intend to stop any contributions to the party unless and until they replace Biden at the top of the ticket. This is realism, not disrespect. Biden is a good man and has served his country admirably, but the stakes are far too high,” Abigail Disney, granddaughter of The Walt Disney Co. co-founder Roy O. Disney, told CNBC on Thursday.
She’ll need that money to pay for her relocation to New Zealand to escape Trump’s Fourth Reich atrocities.
STOP JUMPING EVERY TIME SOMEONE MAKES A COMMENT!
Funny, the site only jumps when I make a comment.
Do you have some malicious add-ons or plugins, or worse, are suing some malicious browser?
“We have an excellent Vice President. If Democrats would tolerate any of her perceived shortcomings even one tenth as much as they have tolerated Biden’s (and let’s not kid ourselves about where race and gender figure in that inequity) and if Democrats can find a way to stop quibbling and rally around her, we can win this election by a lot,” Disney said.
Listen to her. She knows what she’s talking about.
“(and let’s not kid ourselves about where race and gender figure in that inequity)”
This is true, but not in the way intended.
Tolkien said it best: “Not all who wander are lost.” Quick question ‘fore I attempt to write a piece about it, about folk whose path in life is wandering to and fro, from one interest/ obsession/ need to another?
*Who among us has had 3+ distinct careers/ fields? 2+ is also exceptional for my needs? My foray into a distinct third (possible 4th?) professional career/field begins this Monday. I enjoy that my minds interests can’t be contained, though am constantly reminded of the hazards of my scatterbrain. I am intensely jealous of my bro and others who are laser-focused on their lives. However, we are not all the same person.
(Evolution prefers it that way. ‘Tis true, outliers are frequently culled. (Or exalted…))
Whoops. What were the careers? Why the switch? Just tryin’ to remember the wanderers among us. Yusef and KK come to mind. Sensei and I KNOW I’m missing several, several others. (I apologize to those folk: MY mental relapses are pretty justifiable. GodDAMN I’m a perfect ‘witness.’ No one can/ would put me on the stand.)
You are just so irrepressible, Ev.
Dairy farmers in Denmark face having to pay an annual tax of 672 krone ($96) per cow for the planet-heating emissions they generate.
The country’s coalition government agreed this week to introduce the world’s first carbon emissions tax on agriculture. It will mean new levies on livestock starting in 2030.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/26/business/denmark-cows-carbon-tax/index.html
They know that Hitler was a vegetarian, right?
Anyway, the Danes that would have put a stop to this sort of nonsense viking’d right out of there hundreds of years ago.
Not too orthodox of one, from what I have read.